Enlightenment against EmpirePrinceton University Press, 10.01.2009 - 368 Seiten In the late eighteenth century, an array of European political thinkers attacked the very foundations of imperialism, arguing passionately that empire-building was not only unworkable, costly, and dangerous, but manifestly unjust. Enlightenment against Empire is the first book devoted to the anti-imperialist political philosophies of an age often regarded as affirming imperial ambitions. Sankar Muthu argues that thinkers such as Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kant, and Johann Gottfried Herder developed an understanding of humans as inherently cultural agents and therefore necessarily diverse. These thinkers rejected the conception of a culture-free "natural man." They held that moral judgments of superiority or inferiority could be made neither about entire peoples nor about many distinctive cultural institutions and practices. |
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... Judgement The Flux of History On the Horizons of Knowledge and Universal Standards Early Thoughts on National Communities 'Humanity' as Philosophical Anthropology Conceptualizing Human Diversity: Sedentary versus Nomadic Societies ...
... judgements, and political obligations. This study aims both to pluralize our understanding of the philosophical era known as 'the Enlightenment' and to explore a set of arguments and intellectual dispositions that reorient contemporary ...
... judgement, and because their minds are so stupid that they cannot take any other course. . . .11 (158) To prove that Amerindians are not simply creatures of custom (note that he does not, of course, aim to challenge the view that they ...
... judgements and the resultant appeals to tolerance and against narrow dogmatism are among the best known features of Montaigne's thinking, but it is the controversy regarding the barbarity of cannibalism in the New World that afforded ...
... judgement. Indeed, as he notes above, it only “seems” as if we have no other standard of truth than our own customs, and at the outset of the cannibals essay he intones that “we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge ...
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